Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

Anger is practical awkwardness.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.